long before we used it. and now the counterterrorism and computer crime analyst who is live with us this afternoon. you start reading this stuff and it is this weird soup. what, exactly, are they doing? >>guest: well, this is atlas shrugged. they are trying to do it under "we want to tax" and it is certain things about revenue and the sender pays but it boils down to control, to the control and the free flow of information and ideas and the minute you do that you end up with syria which is cutting off communication and keeping people from the outside understand what is going on, inside. >>shepard: this is obviously not something the united states is for, if we don't sign off does it mean it doesn't happen? what is the word? >>guest: this is complex because the internet was built by technologist and engineers not by bureaucrats and legislators. i am not a lawyer so i cannot tell you what will happen but it would make it difficult for big companies like the ciscos of the world or the at&t's, at the end of the